General view of Arbed steel mill, Terre Rouge, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

People:

Bernd and Hilla Becher (photographers)

Title:

General view of Arbed steel mill, Terre Rouge, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Date:

1979

Description:

- The group of 86 photographs PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1081 by Bernd and Hilla Becher show 75 views of steel mill blast furnaces and 11 views of mines. There are 45 views of steel mill blast furnaces in Germany, 15 in the United States, and five in each of France, Luxembourg and Belgium. There are five views of mines in Germany, two in Belgium, two in the United States, and one in each of France and Wales.
- The group of 86 photographs PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1081 by Bernd and Hilla Becher show five views of steel mill blast furnaces in Luxembourg including: four views of the Arbed steel mill in Terre Rouge, Esch-sur-Alzette (PH1987:1036, PH1987:1051 and PH1987:1065 - PH1987:1066); and one view of the Arbed steel mill in Düdelingen (PH1987:1046).
- The photographers have not indicated the exhibition layout for the group of eleven photographs PH1987:1060 - PH1987:1070 of views of blast furnace "landscapes" which are numbered from "P 1" through "P 11" (Kicken Pauseback, 1987).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 30.6 x 40.4 cm

Reference number:

PH1987:1065

Point of View:

general view
exterior view

Inscription:

imprinted - in grey ink, on the print, verso, throughout: "Agfa" [diagonally; sideways; underlined twice] inscribed, numbered, signed and dated - by the photographers, in graphite, on the print, verso, c.: "P 6" [circled]; "Bernd Becher / Hilla Becher"; l.l. to b.: "ARBED TERRE-ROUGE ESCHE-ALZETTE LUXEMBOURG"; and l.r.: "1979"

Location:

Esch-sur-Alzette; Luxembourg;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

blast furnaces
steel mill

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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